Rebecca Barry

May 31, 2024 | libraryjournal.com | Rebecca Barry

. Feb. 2024. 8:59 hrs. ISBN 9781624619991. $19.95. BIOG COPY ISBN Editor, writer, and independent audiobook publisher Barry ( Rare Books Uncovered) pens an intriguing biography of Carolyn Wells (1862–1942), a mystery author who has largely been forgotten but was incredibly prolific and influential from the 1890s through the 1940s.

Mar 12, 2024 | washingtonindependentreviewofbooks.com | Rebecca Barry

Critiques of the literati usually focus on who is included (with well-deserved grumbles over all the dead white men). Less attention is paid to who is not, mostly because we don’t know who they were: Being left out means these authors are no longer read. There are, of course, more forgotten writers than there are names in The Norton Anthology or on any college syllabus.

Feb 15, 2024 | crimereads.com | Rebecca Barry

During my three-year quest to rediscover a “lost lady” of detective fiction, Carolyn Wells, another mysterious woman appeared in the margins of Carolyn’s backstory. She is referred to as the “Unknown Woman,” the unidentified victim of a Victorian murder in Rahway, New Jersey, where both women are buried within walking distance of each other. Wells never wrote about her, but I have a hunch the cold case inspired Wells’s decades-long career as a mystery author.

Feb 12, 2024 | booksbywomen.org | Rebecca Barry

How I ‘Found’ Carolyn Wells, the Once Famous, Now Forgotten Mystery Authorby Rebecca Rego BarryI first learned of Carolyn Wells in the spring of 2011. For most of my life, I’ve been drawn to books, especially old books. So it’s not particularly surprising that I ended up dabbling in rare and antiquarian books, earning a master’s degree in something called book history, and editing a magazine for book collectors.

Dec 28, 2023 | finebooksmagazine.com | Rebecca Barry |Jennifer Howard |Nicholas Basbanes

Feature Clues to the Forgotten Unsung mystery and detective authors whose genre had its golden age a century ago Feature Why We Collect From memory keepers to librarians of the future, collectors share what drives them Gently Mad A Haunted Wonderland Artist Natalie Frank creates drawings for horror and fantasy Digest The Folger Shakespeare Library Returns to the Stage Record-Breaker Miniaturist Miss Currie Rare work from a leading book binding artist In View The Copy Machine Queen The...